Ghana News Agency

Thursday 28th June, 2018

Accra, June 28, GNA - The National
Identification Authority (NIA) has observed with gratitude, media reports to
the effect that Ex-President John. A. Kufuor call on all Ghanaians to avail
themselves for registration and issuance of the Ghana Card.
The NIA in a statement copied to the Ghana
News Agency welcomed his unqualified endorsement of the registration exercise
and his clear rejection of

Accra, June 28, GNA - The National
Identification Authority (NIA) has observed with gratitude, media reports to
the effect that Ex-President John. A. Kufuor call on all Ghanaians to avail
themselves for registration and issuance of the Ghana Card.

The NIA in a statement copied to the Ghana
News Agency welcomed his unqualified endorsement of the registration exercise
and his clear rejection of the boycott by the Minority in Parliament.

It noted that the Ex-President’s call
underscored the importance of the National Identification System to effective
identity verification and planning, and in accelerating the course of our
Nation’s economic, social and political development.

The statement said the NIA had taken note of
Ex-President Kufuor’s comment on the exclusion of the voter’s ID card as one of
the identity documents required by an applicant for registration for the Ghana
Card.

It said, the NIA, as a creature of statute,
would continue to be governed by, and respect, the existing laws passed by
Parliament.

The statement said in exercising its statutory
mandate, the NIA was determined to ensure that every Ghanaian at home and
abroad was duly registered and issued with the Ghana Card, while at the same
time doing all in its power to protect the boundaries of Ghanaian citizenship
and the accuracy and integrity of the National Identity Register as by law
required.

It said NIA had pointed out time and again,
those Ghanaians who lacked any of the prescribed identity documents could be
registered by being vouched for in accordance with the law, at no cost to them.

The statement said it was absolutely no
intention on NIA’s part to disenfranchise or denationalise any Ghanaian.

It said the National Identity Register being
compiled by the NIA was not a substitute for the Voter’s Register, which the
Electoral Commission alone was by law mandated to compile, and the Ghana Card
was not a substitute for the Voter's Identity Card.